The state of New York is sueing tagged.com for deceptive email marketing practices. Basically tagged was asking for people's contact lists from gmail, yahoo mail, hotmail, etc and then spamming the contact list with luring type emails so others would join tagged.

I accidentally gave facebook access to my gmail contact list when I joined that site, an account I have since deleted. I know other social networking sites do unethical spamming with contact lists as well; Yaari is another that has done it.

There is an additional problem with online services. I had a paypal account back in, say 2001, which I deleted because of paypal's shoddy service. I recently bought a shade sail who wanted me to go through paypal. The page to pay said I already had an account for the credit card I was using ... I did not use paypal to buy the shade sail but within a day I got an email from paypal claiming someone had tried to access my account.

As part of our security measures, we regularly screen activity in the PayPal system. During a recent screening, we noticed an issue regarding your account.

We have reason to believe that your account was accessed by a third party. We have limited access to sensitive PayPal account features in case your

account has been accessed by an unauthorized third party. We understand that having limited access can be an inconvenience, but protecting your account is our primary concern.

For your protection, we have limited access to your account until additional security measures can be completed. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

I am pretty sure I deleted that account deliberately. More so, that credit card is recently new. So who knows what is going on.

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